DETAILS
- Artist
- John Marin
- Date
- 1908
- Medium
- Etching, selectively wiped, on ivory wove paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Plate: 27.1 × 32.7 cm (10 11/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 43.5 cm (14 3/8 × 17 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- United States
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Bruce Borland
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THE ARTIST
John Marin
John Marin captured the dynamic energy of New York City and the rugged beauty of the Maine coast in his groundbreaking abstract watercolors.
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